Ten crimes that could send landed immigrants home:
1. Impaired driving causing bodily harm
2. Impaired driving causing death
3. Cultivation of marijuana
4. Trafficking of marijuana over 3 kg
5. Theft over $5,000
6. Robbery without a firearm
7. Possession of a restricted weapon with ammunition
8. Assault causing bodily harm or with a weapon
9. Fleeing police
10. Using or possessing a stolen or forged credit card
The federal government has always had the right to strip permanent residents of their landed immigrant status, but recent legislation has made it easier. Some immigration advocates say these laws cast too wide a net and could send landed immigrants who have spent their whole life in Canada back to a country they no longer call home.